Placing Nature on the Borders of Religion, Philosophy and Ethics

Forrest Clingerman is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Ohio Northern University. He has published a number of essays and journal articles on environmental theology and hermeneutics. He has also held leadership positions in the AAR Religion and Animals Consultation, the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, and the European Forum for the Study of Religion and the Environment.

Placing Nature furthers the dialogue on religion, ethics, and the environment by exploring three interrelated concepts: to recreate, to replace and to restore. This book self-consciously reflects on the intersections of environmental philosophy, environmental theology, and religion and ecology, stressing the importance of how place interprets us and how we interpret place. This work is a unique volume in its serious engagement with theology and religious studies on the issues of ecological restoration and the meaning of place.

Chapter 1 On the Spiritual Understanding of Nature, Páll Skúlason; Part 1 Restoring Place and Meaning, Mark H. Dixon; Chapter 2 Restoration in Space and Place, William R. Jordan III; Chapter 3 Shame, Ritual and Beauty, Todd LeVasseur; Chapter 4 Recreating, in] Eden, Daniel T. Spencer; Chapter 5 Re-creation, Mélanie Walton; Chapter 6 Eschatology of Environmental Bliss in Romans 8:18¿22 and the Imperative of Present Environmental Sustainability from a Nigerian Perspective, Sampson M. Nwaomah; Chapter 7 Resurrecting Spirit, James Janowski; Chapter 8 Chanting the Birds Home, A. James Wohlpart; Part 2 Recreating Place, Reconnecting with Others, Forrest Clingerman; Chapter 9 Reading Ourselves through the Land, Martin Drenthen; Chapter 10 Who am I, who are these People, and what is this Place? A Hermeneutic Account of the Self, Others, and Environments, David Utsler; Chapter 11 Concern for Creation, David C. McDuffie; Chapter 12 Recreate, Relate, Decenter, Anna L. Peterson; Chapter 13 Replacing Animal Rights and Liberation Theories, Jonathan Parker; Chapter 14 Re-Placing the Doctrine of the Trinity, Sarah Morice-Brubaker; Chapter 15 In the Beginning and in the End, H. Peter Steeves;